About Hugh Brown

I am an Australian documentary photographer. I say "documentary" because I have made it my life's work to document aspects of our world that are rapidly changing. People. Towns. Occupations. Landscapes. It is my life's goal to take important photographs: not "pretty photographs". When I hang up the camera I want to feel that I have made a meaningful contribution to the life and conscience of our planet.

My photographic life began after I left my law studies and management consulting career to move to Western Australia's Kimberley region back in 1998. Photography was not something I'd thought of as a career to that point and the camera came along on my early adventures because I was seeing such incredibly beautiful and remote places.

My expedition team standing on a suspension bridge over a tributary of the Indus River after the conclusion of my first expedition in Northern Pakistan in 2015. We'd just hiked high up into the Karakorum Range to photograph men mining literally on the sides of 500 metre cliff faces at altitudes in excess of 4000 metres.

Being interviewed by Russia’s National Broadcaster in the Russian Far East, Winter, 2018.

On location in the Ijen volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, 2013. The gas seen in the background is from an active volcanic vent tapping into a magma chamber. Gases can be as high as 600 degrees celcius when they reach the surface.

Being interviewed by Australia’s National Broadcaster in my home town of Perth, 2017.